Amith Gupta, an NYU law student and Palestine solidarity organizer details what he calls the movement’s “increasingly problematic and racist politics”. See also Louis Proyect’s “In Defense of Counter-Punch” discussing the witch-hunt that took place against him, Gupta, and several other publications simply for publishing this defense of Weir.

Palestine solidarity activist Paul Larudee asks why the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation refused to condemn Zionism as a form of racism in its “anti-racism” principles. In their response, the leadership of the US Campaign refused to condemn Zionism as a form of racism.